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Author Dennis Lehane's vivid recollections of growing up in Boston during the busing desegregation crisis in the mid-1970s inspired his 2023 novel "Small Mercies."

Starting in July workers making $44,000 a year or less qualify. And starting in January workers making about $59,000 or less will qualify.

This week Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reported on an autonomous, electric crop duster in California. It reminded him of the last time he did a story about a crop duster.

Police in New York made arrests last week at an encampment at Columbia University.

A recent study shows that transitioning to electric trucks can save lives and money.

A measure passed in the House this weekend would force the sale of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok or ban it from app stores in the U.S.

The small island nation of Tuvalu is among one of the most vulnerable places in the world to sea level rise.

President Biden is campaigning in Arizona, which he very narrowly won in 2020.

Caitlin Clark led the charge for her Iowa Hawkeyes over rival the LSU Tigers — a rematch of the final last year, which LSU won.

In "The Little Regent," a little girl ends up ruling her West African village in an empowering story about breaking from tradition.

Climate change has made the island, in the Southern Ocean between South Africa and Antarctica, more hospitable to the rodents that are attacking birds.

Trump's lawyers are expected to appeal a decision last week that allowed district attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case despite the appearance of a conflict of interest with her lead prosecutor, who has since resigned from the case.

The 44-year-old former tax inspector won an upset victory less than two weeks after he was incarcerated as a political prisoner.

ISIS-K is an offshoot of the Islamic State primarily based in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Kahneman's work helped expose issues of bias in decision-making that demonstrated a propensity among people to make choices against their own interests.

More than 7,000 people under the age of 18 experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year but many states don't require AEDs in schools.

Ilia Malinin, 19, made history over the weekend, after landing six quadruple jumps to take the figure skating world championship title.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says a rapidly aging population is putting serious pressure on social systems meant to support retirees and, in turn, putting more pressure on the working-age population.

In a small prison unit in Albion, Pennsylvania, 45 inmates with intellectual disabilities and autism are learning social skills like how to greet each other.

Pharmacists across the country are following the case.

A psychotherapist is advocating for preschools to take a different approach to supporting young children to benefit their emotional well-being.

In the book, a little boy named Joe is repeatedly asked why he has only one leg, an experience that Catchpole drew from his own life.

Creators like Corporate Erin are raking in millions of views and likes as they poke fun at the trauma and humor of the toxic workplace culture in the United States.

If Exxon succeeds, shareholder advocates worry the case could usher in a wave of similar lawsuits by other corporations and chill shareholder activism on the issue of climate change.

With no ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in place, many Gazans are fasting for the Muslim holy month, despite already having limited access to food and clean water amid the ongoing war and violence.